For Barbara Beirne, being a photographer meant building a relationship of trust and collaboration with her subjects and using ...

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The Medal of Honor is the only American military decoration worn around the neck rather than pinned to the uniform. Each of ...

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

The soldiers were young and inexperienced, most in their teens or early twenties. In the North, they were farmers and factory ...

Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

In the opening struggles for control of Europe, the United States used economic aid to support the democracies of Western ...

The Battle of Bull Run, the first major clash in the Civil War, ended in a Confederate victory. It shattered illusions that ...

324,000 aircraft 88,000 tanks 8,800 warships 5,600 merchant ships 224,000 pieces of artillery 2,382,000 trucks 79,000 landing ...

On September 17, Lee met General McClellan in the bloodiest single day of fighting in the war and in American history. Union ...

Washington reviewing the troops As commander in chief, George Washington reviewed the western army at Fort Cumberland, ...